Shows Like Major Dad
If you liked Major Dad (1989), a comedy and family series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Step by Step (1991)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and familyStep by Step is an American television sitcom with two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended family
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Leave It to Beaver (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and familyAn inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's…
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My Three Sons (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and familyA widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join…
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Father Knows Best (1954)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and familyFamily man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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The Cosby Show (1984)
★ 7/10Also comedy and familyThe Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper…
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The Hogan Family (1986)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and familyThe Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions…
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Family Matters (1989)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and familyA long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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Stuck in the Middle (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and familyHarley is an engineering whiz who uses her inventions to navigate life as the middle child in a large family of seven kids.
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The Jeffersons (1975)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and familySitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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Life with Derek (2005)
★ 7/10Also family and comedyBefore their parents got married to one another, 15-year-old Derek and 14-year-old Casey ruled their respective houses as the oldest sibling. Now they're in constant rivalry for top dog status of the five kids all…
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Trophy Wife (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and familyThe third time's the charm, they say, and reformed party girl Kate is hoping that's true when she becomes the third wife of a slightly older man, Pete. They fell into each others' arms (literally) at a karaoke bar, and…
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Raising Hope (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and familyJames "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but…
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Are We There Yet? (2010)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyAre We There Yet? opens where the popular film of the same name left off, with Nick and Suzanne newly married. After six months, their family is beginning to show growing pains, from the complexities of life as…
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Cosby (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and familyCosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia…
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and familyGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of…
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The Villains of Valley View (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and familyA family of raucous supervillains who recently ran afoul of the League of Villains and now must somehow beat a path to normalcy in a small Texas town.
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Moesha (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and familyThe everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.
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A Different World (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and familyA Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of…
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American Housewife (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyA family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
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Gimme a Break! (1981)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and familyGimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.